Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 276 288
Rank change year-on-year -19 +12 -77
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 498 509 828
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.67% 1.17% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 1.25% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 201 306 491
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,750 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £69,686 £68,338
Median % change year-on-year +7.63% +1.97% -5.74%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £126,250 £97,226 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.96% +8.33% -5.88%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 57,853 40,823 73,554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.06% 93.60% 87.34%
Number of salaries quoted 35,092 22,156 55,922
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,366 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,911 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.86%
75th Percentile £76,674 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 14 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -16 451 £76,250 +9.91% 180
London +63 262 £92,500 +23.33% 91
Work from Home +50 209 £75,000 +15.38% 91
UK excluding London -81 185 £63,076 -2.96% 111
North of England -42 53 £76,250 - 22
South East -55 45 £58,750 -9.62% 40
Midlands -47 34 £64,038 -1.48% 17
North West -13 33 £82,500 +6.45% 14
West Midlands -8 25 £63,076 -2.96% 8
East of England +21 21 £60,100 -12.58% 12
South West -58 19 £62,500 - 10
Yorkshire -30 18 £68,510 +110.80% 6
Northern Ireland -19 11 £75,000 +26.20% 1
East Midlands -46 9 £80,000 +33.33% 9
Wales -4 4 £61,001 +2.64% 3
Scotland -19 4 £55,000 +5.33% 11
North East -24 2 £63,076 -23.54% 2

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 17 (3.41%) Confluence
2 12 (2.41%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.01%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.60%) CMS
5 2 (0.40%) CICS
5 2 (0.40%) MTS
6 1 (0.20%) Drupal
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 19 (3.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 17 (3.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.60%) Trello
6 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (2.61%) Payment Gateway
2 10 (2.01%) Workfront
3 5 (1.00%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.60%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.20%) Magento
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.20%) Shopify
5 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 63 (12.65%) SaaS
2 57 (11.45%) AWS
3 49 (9.84%) Azure
4 23 (4.62%) Power Platform
5 19 (3.82%) Pulumi
6 16 (3.21%) iPaaS
7 15 (3.01%) GCP
8 14 (2.81%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (2.81%) GitHub
9 10 (2.01%) GitHub Copilot
10 9 (1.81%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (1.81%) OneDrive
10 9 (1.81%) PaaS
11 8 (1.61%) H2O.ai
11 8 (1.61%) OpenShift
12 5 (1.00%) Asana
12 5 (1.00%) Snowflake
13 4 (0.80%) Collibra
13 4 (0.80%) Figma
13 4 (0.80%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 40 (8.03%) Broadband
2 10 (2.01%) HTTP
3 9 (1.81%) SD-WAN
4 8 (1.61%) WAN
5 6 (1.20%) LAN
5 6 (1.20%) RTP
6 5 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.80%) Wireless
8 3 (0.60%) Multicast
9 2 (0.40%) 5G
9 2 (0.40%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.40%) Network Security
9 2 (0.40%) NGN
9 2 (0.40%) VPN
10 1 (0.20%) 4G
10 1 (0.20%) ATM
10 1 (0.20%) Bluetooth
10 1 (0.20%) Intranet
10 1 (0.20%) MPLS
10 1 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (6.22%) Metadata
2 22 (4.42%) Power BI
3 21 (4.22%) NoSQL
3 21 (4.22%) Relational Database
4 20 (4.02%) RDBMS
5 9 (1.81%) Data Lake
6 7 (1.41%) Tableau
7 6 (1.20%) SAP BW
7 6 (1.20%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.00%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.60%) Big Data
9 3 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.60%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.40%) DB2
11 1 (0.20%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (5.42%) JIRA
2 19 (3.82%) Jaeger
3 4 (0.80%) ERwin
4 3 (0.60%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.20%) ER Studio
General
1 190 (38.15%) Finance
2 178 (35.74%) Social Skills
3 127 (25.50%) Marketing
4 87 (17.47%) Analytical Skills
5 63 (12.65%) Banking
6 57 (11.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 49 (9.84%) Retail
8 42 (8.43%) Law
9 38 (7.63%) Legal
10 36 (7.23%) Influencing Skills
11 35 (7.03%) Presentation Skills
12 32 (6.43%) Financial Institution
13 24 (4.82%) Back Office
14 22 (4.42%) Public Sector
15 20 (4.02%) Manufacturing
16 18 (3.61%) Digital Economy
17 16 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
18 11 (2.21%) Automotive
19 10 (2.01%) Electronics
20 9 (1.81%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 138 (27.71%) Product Manager
2 71 (14.26%) Lead
3 62 (12.45%) Senior
4 39 (7.83%) Product Owner
5 36 (7.23%) Senior Manager
6 30 (6.02%) Senior Product Manager
7 20 (4.02%) Product Lead
8 18 (3.61%) Digital Product Manager
9 17 (3.41%) Product Management Director
10 16 (3.21%) Change Manager
10 16 (3.21%) Developer
11 15 (3.01%) Consultant
12 12 (2.41%) Data Manager
13 11 (2.21%) Cloud Engineer
13 11 (2.21%) Development Engineer
13 11 (2.21%) Security Engineer
14 10 (2.01%) Senior Development Engineer
14 10 (2.01%) Senior Software Development Engineer
14 10 (2.01%) Software Development Engineer
14 10 (2.01%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.82%) Elastic Stack
1 19 (3.82%) OpenTelemetry
2 12 (2.41%) REST
3 9 (1.81%) YAML
4 8 (1.61%) Keras
4 8 (1.61%) PyTorch
4 8 (1.61%) TensorFlow
5 5 (1.00%) .NET
6 3 (0.60%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (0.40%) CSS
7 2 (0.40%) HTML
7 2 (0.40%) Next.js
8 1 (0.20%) EDI
8 1 (0.20%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.20%) Flask
8 1 (0.20%) PySpark
8 1 (0.20%) RESTful
8 1 (0.20%) SOAP
8 1 (0.20%) Spring
8 1 (0.20%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 105 (21.08%) Product Ownership
2 39 (7.83%) Self-Motivation
3 38 (7.63%) Onboarding
4 28 (5.62%) Management Information System
5 26 (5.22%) Social Media
6 22 (4.42%) Cloud Native
7 17 (3.41%) Marketing Technology
8 16 (3.21%) Over-the-Top Content
9 12 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (2.21%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.81%) Security Posture
12 8 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.61%) Data Centre
13 7 (1.41%) Data Fabric
13 7 (1.41%) Mobile App
14 6 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 6 (1.20%) IoT
14 6 (1.20%) Virtual Team
15 5 (1.00%) Driving Licence
15 5 (1.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.62%) Linux
2 19 (3.82%) Unix
3 6 (1.20%) Windows
4 2 (0.40%) zOS
5 1 (0.20%) Android
5 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (53.61%) Roadmaps
2 220 (44.18%) Agile
3 136 (27.31%) Product Roadmap
4 108 (21.69%) Product Strategy
5 105 (21.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 105 (21.08%) Stakeholder Management
6 99 (19.88%) Problem-Solving
7 91 (18.27%) Mentoring
8 90 (18.07%) AI
9 89 (17.87%) Product Vision
10 78 (15.66%) Analytics
11 75 (15.06%) Decision-Making
12 69 (13.86%) User Experience
13 67 (13.45%) Information Security
14 63 (12.65%) User Stories
15 62 (12.45%) Business Development
16 61 (12.25%) Project Management
17 60 (12.05%) Coaching
18 55 (11.04%) Customer Experience
19 51 (10.24%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 43 (8.63%) Python
2 32 (6.43%) Java
3 28 (5.62%) SQL
4 23 (4.62%) JavaScript
5 20 (4.02%) Go
6 19 (3.82%) Bash
7 9 (1.81%) PowerShell
8 4 (0.80%) C#
9 2 (0.40%) Bicep
9 2 (0.40%) COBOL
9 2 (0.40%) JCL
9 2 (0.40%) PHP
9 2 (0.40%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.20%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.20%) R
10 1 (0.20%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 91 (18.27%) Degree
2 38 (7.63%) Master's Degree
3 29 (5.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (4.62%) Security Cleared
5 20 (4.02%) AWS Certification
6 14 (2.81%) SC Cleared
7 7 (1.41%) DBS Check
7 7 (1.41%) PMI Certification
7 7 (1.41%) PMP
8 6 (1.20%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.20%) MBA
9 4 (0.80%) SAP Certification
10 3 (0.60%) CSPO
10 3 (0.60%) HNC
11 2 (0.40%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.40%) CBAP
11 2 (0.40%) CCNA
11 2 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.40%) CISSP
11 2 (0.40%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.62%) QA
2 14 (2.81%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.01%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.01%) NCSC
5 9 (1.81%) NIST
6 7 (1.41%) GDPR
7 5 (1.00%) IFRS
7 5 (1.00%) ISO 20022
7 5 (1.00%) PMO
7 5 (1.00%) SLA
8 2 (0.40%) COREP
8 2 (0.40%) FINREP
8 2 (0.40%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.40%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.40%) SEPA
9 1 (0.20%) GMP
9 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.20%) PSD2
9 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (4.22%) Docker
2 2 (0.40%) RACF
3 1 (0.20%) Firmware
3 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (5.02%) Terraform
2 21 (4.22%) Kubernetes
3 19 (3.82%) Ansible
3 19 (3.82%) Argo
3 19 (3.82%) Kustomize
3 19 (3.82%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.20%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.20%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 49 (9.84%) Microsoft
2 35 (7.03%) Google
3 24 (4.82%) Adobe
4 14 (2.81%) Salesforce
5 9 (1.81%) Oracle
6 8 (1.61%) Databricks
6 8 (1.61%) Dell
6 8 (1.61%) NVIDIA
6 8 (1.61%) SAP
7 7 (1.41%) Foundry
8 4 (0.80%) Sage
8 4 (0.80%) Toshiba
8 4 (0.80%) YouTube
9 3 (0.60%) Apple
9 3 (0.60%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.60%) Cisco
9 3 (0.60%) CQG
9 3 (0.60%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.60%) Reuters
9 3 (0.60%) Tenable